The greek early mover companies in mergers and acquisitions of S.E. Europe and their returns
Abstract
The aim of this doctoral dissertation is to examine the early movers' phenomenon, and whether these companies have any abnormal returns in case of a merger or acquisition announcement. The research sample consists of 50 Greek companies of high capitalization enlisted in the Athens Stock Exchange, which they performed 109 cases of mergers or acquisitions in the period 1999-2006. These investments took place in the region of South East Europe, when during the same period the European Union experienced its great expansion. The methodology followed is the Event Studies methodology in combination with daily data, namely daily stock prices. This methodology is mainly used to examine the stock prices' fluctuations around a specific day, due to a fact like a change in firms1 tax regulations, a profit announcement, a merger or acquisition announcement, etc. For this doctoral dissertation the event of interest was the day the intention of the Greek companies to merge with or to acquire another c ...
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